Types of Resources Needed to Make a Product

What are natural resources?

• Items found in nature that people use

• Human-made items used to make other goods

• People's talents and skills

• Money used to buy products

Which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource?

• Trees

• Water

• Scissors

• Minerals

Human resources are _________.

• people's talents and skills

• office equipment

• financial assets

• company vehicles

Just having trees is not ________ if you want to make a table. You also need the skill to cut the tree into lumber.

• sufficient

• dangerous

• expensive

• impossible

Capital resources are:

• Items found in nature

• Human-made items used to make other goods or provide services

• People's talents and skills

• Money used to buy products

Which of the following is an example of a capital resource?

• Water

• Plows

• Minerals

• Soil

What is an example of a capital resource mentioned in the passage?

• Metal letters

• Computers

• Newspapers

• Dentists' tools

As time passes, ______ advances.

• technology

• weather

• furniture

• breakfast

Read the passage: Some of our tools and capital resources have changed over time. None of us would want to go to a dentist who uses tools from a hundred years ago! As time passes, technology advances. For example, it used to take a long time to place metal letters to print one page of a newspaper. Now a news story can be delivered to someone’s phone or tablet very fast. Computers are an important capital resource.

• True

• False

The delivery of news has changed over time according to the passage.

• It has shifted from print to digital platforms.

• It has always remained the same.

• It has become slower and less accessible.

• It is now only available through newspapers.